Editor's Note: Frank Westwood passed away in 2013. In his memory, Rod Jackson has made early issues of
Frank's popular ERB fanzine -- The Fantastic Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs,
available for fans. Our full tribute to Frank is featured at ERBzine
4538. Rod Jackson's contribution to this page is an excerpt
from that tribute.
Rod Jackson Remembers

For
over forty years Frank Westwood's was the name that came to mind when any
reference to Burroughs fandom in the UK was made. He was equally well known
on the other side of the Atlantic through his editorship of The Fantastic
Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs and the various vacations and convention
attendances in the USA that he and Doreen made in the 1980s and 90s.

I first met Frank in 1969, through the medium of Gordon
Landsborough of Four Square Books, who asked if I would like to be put
in touch with a fellow Burroughs fan. Frank impressed me straightaway with
his knowledge of the author and his book collection, and six years later
we helped to found the British Edgar Rice Burroughs Society. From the ninth
issue of the Society’s Journal Frank took up the editorship and attracted
a worldwide subscription, presenting the readership with articles, artwork
and correspondence that had a uniquely British slant on all aspects of
ERB. In 1988 and 1997 he and Doreen organised two memorable conventions,
based in both London and the very special venue of Greystoke in Cumbria.

When I first knew him Frank was working on a comprehensive
survey of the Barsoomian series, which he had titled The Martian Manuscripts
of Edgar Rice Burroughs, a work which sadly was not fully completed
when he passed away. (Laurence Dunn hopes to put the finishing touches
to this work and have it published at some future date).

Frank was admired by all who knew him for his friendship,
generous and sympathetic nature, and for his boundless and infectious enthusiasm
for ERB. We will all miss him so much.